埋うずめる

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埋める · ichidan verb

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	埋うずめる	埋うずめない
Polite	埋うずめます	埋うずめません
Past polite	埋うずめました	埋うずめませんでした
Past	埋うずめた	埋うずめなかった
Te-form	埋うずめて	埋うずめないで
Desire	埋うずめたい	埋うずめたくない
Potential	埋うずめられるalso 埋うずめれる	埋うずめられないalso 埋うずめれない
Passive	埋うずめられる	埋うずめられない
Causative	埋うずめさせる	埋うずめさせない
Causative passive	埋うずめさせられる	埋うずめさせられない
Volitional	埋うずめよう
Polite volitional	埋うずめましょう
Imperative	埋うずめろ	埋うずめるな
Conditional	埋うずめれば	埋うずめなければ
Tara conditional	埋うずめたら	埋うずめなかったら

Pairs with埋まる

Meanings

ichidan verb, transitive verb

cover; bury in; submerge

Used when something is covered over or hidden by being surrounded, buried, or sunk into something else. Common collocations include 顔を両手にうずめる and 雪にうずめる.

彼かの女じょは顔かおを両りょう手てにうずめた。
She buried her face in her hands.
大おお雪ゆきが小ちいさな村むらをうずめた。
The heavy snow buried the small village.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

fill completely; pack; cram

Used for a space being so fully occupied that it is covered or packed with people or things. Compared with 詰める, it emphasizes the resulting full, covered state rather than the act of packing efficiently.

観かん客きゃくが客きゃく席せきをぎっしりうずめた。
The spectators packed the seats completely.
抗こう議ぎする人ひと々びとが広ひろ場ばをうずめた。
Protesters filled the square.

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Usage patterns

顔かおを〈物もの〉にうずめるto bury one's face in something
彼かの女じょは枕まくらに顔かおをうずめて泣ないた。
She buried her face in the pillow and cried.
〈場ば所しょ〉を〈人ひと〉でうずめるto fill a place completely with people
観かん客きゃくが会かい場じょうをうずめた。
The audience filled the venue completely.
雪ゆきに〈物もの〉をうずめるto bury something in snow
車くるまを雪ゆきにうずめてしまった。
The car ended up buried in snow.

Expressions

骨ほねを埋うずめるmake a place one's final home; settle somewhere for life · devote one's life to; do something for the rest of one's life

Kanji

埋bury, be filled up, embedded
填fill in

Transitive / intransitive

埋うまるN1
埋まる is the intransitive counterpart meaning 'to become buried or filled', while 埋める（うずめる）is transitive and takes the thing or space being covered as its object.
埋うもれる
埋もれる is the intransitive counterpart meaning 'to lie buried or covered', while 埋める（うずめる）is transitive and describes the act of covering or burying something.

Related words

詰つめるN3sense 2
詰める focuses on packing or stuffing things tightly into a space, while 埋める（うずめる）emphasizes the resulting state of a space being completely covered or filled.

Don't confuse with

埋うめるN3
埋める written the same way is usually read うめる and covers a broader range of meanings like burying an object, filling a hole, or making up for a loss, whereas 埋める（うずめる）specifically describes something being completely covered or submerged.

Written forms

埋うずめるUsage1%
Standard kanji spelling for うずめる, meaning to cover, bury in, or fill completely. The same spelling is also commonly read うめる in a related but broader verb, so kana may be used when the reading needs to be clear.
うずめるUsage99%
Hiragana spelling is practical when avoiding confusion with 埋める read うめる.
填うずめる
Attested kanji variant using 填, a character associated with filling; uncommon in ordinary modern writing for this verb.

Etymology

A native Japanese verb written conventionally with 埋, a kanji associated with burying or filling. The variant 填める uses 填, also associated with filling, but is rare for this reading. The precise historical derivation is not specified.